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[stephen]

I would like to add that my team is not the only one that is fielding an opener who is not an opener.

 

[stephen]

Not Bad Eh? XI

1. Jack Hobbs
2. Gordon Greenidge
3. Sir Donald Bradman *
4. Joe Root (6)
5. Graeme Pollock
6. Quinton de Kock +
7. Mahmadullah (5)
8. Wasim Akram (1)
9. Dale Steyn (2)
10. Curtly Ambrose (3)
11. Bhagwat Chandrasekhar (4)

Ambrose is literally gonna kill me for not giving him the new ball

Yeah WTF man, Akram should be first change there.

And this is exactly why the Mahmadullah rule was the way it was. Your team is ahead by a million miles.

 

[stephen]

• AndrewB: Kane Williamson, Hedley Verity, Steve Smith, Mike Procter, Keith Miller, George Lohmann, Alan Knott, Matthew Hayden, Aubrey Faulkner, Sydney (SF) Barnes
• ankitj: Fred Trueman, Brian Statham, KS Ranjitsinhji, Muttiah Muralitharan, Clive Lloyd, Len Hutton, Joel Garner, Roy Fredericks, Denis Compton, Jonny Bairstow

Timed out:

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Complete:

• SillyCowCorner1: Frank Worrell, Dan Vettori, Kumar Sangakkara, Ian Redpath, Bobby Peel, Makhaya Ntini, Mudassar Nazar, Javed Miandad, Wes Hall, Trevor Goddard, John Edrich
• Teuton: Younis Khan, Bob Willis, Gary Sobers, Andy Roberts, Bill O'Reilly, Arthur Morris, Imran Khan, Michael Hussey, WG Grace, Andy Flower, Ken Barrington
• honestbharani: Everton Weekes, Chaminda Vaas, Frank Tyson, Shakib Al Hasan, ​Kagiso Rabada, Eddie Paynter, Mushtaq Mohammed, Brian Lara, Wally Hammond, AB De Villiers, ​Ravi Ashwin
• stephen: Zaheer Abbas, Bill Woodfull, Sachin Tendulkar, Shoaib Akhtar, Ricky Ponting, Dudley Nourse, Jim Laker, Kapil Dev, Adam Gilchrist, Alan Davidson, Ian Botham
• ataraxia: Steve Waugh, Derek Underwood, Glenn Turner, Viv Richards, Bill Ponsford, Bert Oldfield, Ray Lindwall, Richard Hadlee, Allan Donald, Martin Crowe, Warwick Armstrong
• pothas: Waqar Younis, Hugh Tayfield, Graeme Smith, Shaun Pollock, Dennis Lillee, Virat Kohli, Mahela Jayawardene, Sunil Gavaskar, Rahul Dravid, Michael Clarke, Les Ames
• weldone: Wasim Akram, Dale Steyn, Joe Root, Graeme Pollock, Mahmudullah, Jack Hobbs, Gordon Greenidge, Quinton de Kock, Bhagwat Chandrasekhar, Don Bradman, Curtly Ambrose
• kingkallis: Clyde Walcott, Herbert Sutcliffe, Barry Richards, Glenn McGrath, Harold Larwood, Rohan Kanhai, Michael Holding, Clarrie Grimmett, MS Dhoni, Allan Border, Mohammad Azharuddin
• trundler: Shane Warne, Victor Trumper, Bob Simpson, Jack Russell, Malcolm Marshall, Jacques Kallis, George Headley, Graham Gooch, Greg Chappell, Shane Bond, Neil Adcock

 

[weldone]

Yeah WTF man, Akram should be first change there.

Sultan of swing must get a chance to swing the new ball.

 

[weldone]

Trundler should have taken Broad or Bumrah from B IMO. Would have made his team clear favourite to win the draft

Haha ya 100%. It was a terrible mistake from him to let go of Ambrose. He still has one of the best teams in voting (and I'd vote for him as promised), but Broad+Ambrose is way better than Bond+Vampire.

 

[trundler]

Trundler should have taken Broad or Bumrah from B IMO. Would have made his team clear favourite to win the draft

You evil ****

 

[stephen]

I prefer Bishop to Bond as well.

 

[trundler]

I'll take Neil Adcock.

Graham Gooch
Bob Simpson 6
George Headley
Greg Chappell 7
Victor Trumper
Jacques Kallis 5
Jack Russell+
Shane Warne 4
Malcolm Marshall 1
Shane Bond 2
Neil Adcock 3

 

[Pothas]

Broad would have been totally fine.

 

[trundler]

This is what makes people turn into serial killers.

 

[ankitj]

You evil ****

When I suggested Bond to you, I had mistakenly thought it will put you ahead of others for A pick.

 

[stephen]

I'll take a crack at the "wasn't picked" side:

Cook
Haynes
Mohammed Yousef
McCabe
Chanderpaul
Inzamam-ul-haq
McCullum+
Benaud
Bishop
Bedser
Walsh

 

[ankitj]

Neil Harvey, Kevin Pietersen too.

 

[trundler]

ATG openers who each bring something different to the table. 2 triple centuries up top. My middle order has every shade of greatness. Headley and Chappell have the best conversation rates after Bradman himself. Trumper can and did hit a century before lunch and Kallis is there to grind bowlers down and keep things together. Russell is the best English keeper since Knott and Warne would be happy to have him behind the stumps. Marshall is Marshall and Bond's inswing at pace compliments him nicely. Who better to perform the enforcer role than Adcock who was hitting 150ks 60 years ago and was the fastest according to May and Cowdrey at a time when Trueman and Lindwall were still at their best. I mean, other than Ambrose.

 

[Pothas]

Chanderpaul again. Did think about him this time but would just much rather have Clarke at 6.

 

[trundler]

When I suggested Bond to you, I had mistakenly thought it will put you ahead of others for A pick.

I was gonna pick Bond anyway. I will be adding Weldone, Pothas, KK and you to my votes in any case.

 

[honestbharani]

No matter who wins the polls, I think we can all agree that we are all winners here by ****ing up trundler's plans.

 

[trundler]

I'll take a crack at the "wasn't picked" side:

Cook
Haynes
Mohammed Yousef
McCabe
Chanderpaul
Inzamam-ul-haq
McCullum+
Benaud
Bishop
Bedser
Walsh

Surely Boycott over Haynes. What did poor Geoff do to you?

 

[trundler]

Getting rid of rounds is so so fun. I'd be happy to run the average draft.

 

[weldone]

This is what makes people turn into serial killers.